Modernity, training and employment for Moroccan women

Abstract

Morocco is currently experiencing an intense process of social change in which women are at the core. One of the most important social, political and economic transformations occurring in the country is the access by women to jobs and training. We observe that the ability to work outside the home and earn a salary is changing women’s mentality as well as their actions in other fields in which they are gradually gaining prominence, as the theoretical review of works by other authors such as Chafai, Mernissi, or Alberdi, among others, attests to.

To explore the consequences of these changes, several variables relating to the dimensions of training and employment of the World Values Survey for Morocco of 2001 and 2007 are analysed. The results are compared to the discourses of key informants collected in fieldwork conducted in Morocco by the universities of Malaga and Abdelmalek Essaadi from 2007 to 2008 (Gender identity of Moroccan women) for the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).